He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in secret places.
For it increases. You hunt me like a fierce lion: and again you show yourself to be wondrous upon me.
He lies in wait concealed as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he catches the poor, when he draws him into his net.
Like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.
I was troubled till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night will you make an end of me.
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.
He has enclosed my ways with cut stone, he has made my paths crooked.
For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.